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[PA Comic] Friday, October 11, 2013 - The Cylorg Menace
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In reality you would explain and shuffle and redeal but man
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Fucking Christ the setup for that game.
On the other hand all their games are gorgeous, so I keep buying them.
Basically, start combat-loading your game boxes for rapid deployment. Four people playing Archipelago can be ready in seconds. "You grab the red stuff, you grab the blue stuff, you grab the yellow stuff. Put a boat here, take two of these and have this fistful of counters."
The longest set-up I have is Elder Sign, and that's only because I like to get the layout just so.
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I fantasize about having a massive cabinet like an old library card index to store all my board game pieces in.
It happens every time. Whenever you're playing a game with a hidden traitor, some new player who clearly wasn't paying attention will look at their loyalty card and ask "how do I know if I'm <the saboteur>?" or some similar question. Every. Time.
* Do you live in Toronto? Have you been to Snakes & Lattes? If not, what's wrong with you? It is a board game cafe that literally has multiple walls full of games to choose from and sells genuine French baguettes. Nothing about this concept is not awesome. Arrive early on weekends to get a table!
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What does Cylon have to do with Gabe being an erotic pleasurebot?
does that make me strange?
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I don't like board games.
I've never really been attracted to them, as much as I've tried. Sure, I can appreciate a good board game aesthetically; I'll hear what the rules are, and think "oh, sure, that lends itself to some neat situations and scenarios." But whenever I'm faced with actually playing a board game, the prospect just holds no interest to me. And I've played a few. But every time, I'd find myself thinking "this just isn't for me." Usually, the only way I could get through it is by thinking about something else, and trying to get it over with as quickly as possible.
I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. For years, there's been so many board game nights, so many Kickstarters my friends have paid into, so many colorful boxes staring at me from shelves in friends' living rooms. There's been so much pressure to try this system, or that expansion. So much time spent waiting my turn to play, when I'd rather be reading a book or watching a movie or drunkenly trying to explain how quantum mechanics can prove the equivalence of subatomic particles. I feel free.
I expect some of my friends to feel surprised, or maybe even betrayed by this. I want those people to know that this has nothing to do with them. Nothing they did turned me this way. It's not because they did a bad job of playing those games, or because they didn't make it fun enough for me. They are all good people, and I'm sure they will find someone wonderful who will love to play board games with them.
It just won't be me.
Because I don't like board games.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
When you get a game going, though, and everyone's getting into it, and the accusations are flying, and the Raiders are attacking, and the water supplies are getting blown up and "GODSDAMMIT, guys, I'm NOT the Cylon! PLEASE let me out of the Brig so I can jump us away from the Basestars!" and...
It's all worth it.
Incidentally, we just got our pre-order of Firefly and tried it out yesterday, and while it won't take the title from BSG, it wants to be a contender. FOURTEEN separate decks of cards on the table. Not including the Monopoly-style piles of money in the "bank".
That's actually how it's supposed to work, I think. Each of the expansions has a couple of different "modules" that you can use, or not. Some of them I don't think are compatible (such as the alternate endgame options from Exodus and Daybreak). Other parts are confusing and (I think) take away from the core experience of the game, without adding anything that improves on what was lost (which is unfortunate, because it's the core of BSG that is so great). The next time I run it, I think we'll use all of the new characters from the expansions ('cause more variety in character options is always better for experienced players), but without any of the optional add-ons.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41114/the-resistance
King of Tokyo is a fantastic game.
Created by Richard Garfield who brought us:
Magic the Gathering!
Now celebrating 20 years of sucking wallets dry.
AND
Netrunner.
The current version is Android Netrunner published by FFG (Fantasy Flight Games) and probably one of the best games ever created.
OK that is an opinion but it should be a fact.
Oh man! The Resistance is pretty dangerous, it almost destroyed my group of friends in only one game. I prefer instead this one: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9220/saboteur So similar to "The Resistance" and, in my opinion, more funny (and more safe for preserve your friendships).